nigeria news today 250118

Real Madrid crashed to a humiliating Copa del Rey exit on Wednesday when they were knocked out by little Leganes in the quarter-finals with under-fire coach Zinedine Zidane taking the blame. European champions Real lost 2-1 in the second leg at their Bernabeu home as the tie finished 2-2 on …...

The Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung, has thanked the President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Ahmad for his support to the five African nations which qualified for the World Cup in Russia with particular reference to Nigeria’s Super Eagles Dalung showed his gratitude...

Doris Obinna The World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated 853 motorcycles and other items to the Federal Government to strengthen disease surveillance across the country. The items will be distributed to the 36 states of the federation. Making the donation to the Minister of Health, Prof...

The Osun State Independent Electoral Commission has said 12 more political parties have withdrawn from the January 27 local government elections in the state. The Chairman of OSIEC, Chief Segun Oladitan, who said this at a press conference in Osogbo on Wednesday, stated that only six political …...

Senator Iroegbu in Abuja A peace and conflict resolution expert and Director General of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Prof. Oshita Oshita has warned that retaliatory and reprisal measures by aggrieved people and communities occasioned by the herdsmen attacks in Nigeria...

Mudiaga Affe, Calabar The police in Cross River State on Wednesday killed an unidentified teacher alleged to be among a four-man robbery gang that raided shops along Goldie-Mount Zion Street in the Calabar-South area of the state capital. PUNCH Metro learnt that operatives from the Uwanse Police...

Theophilus Onojeghen, Warri The Delta State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man, Mr. Festus Chuka, and an accomplice, Evans Odiwe, for allegedly killing a businessman, Innocent Nwankwo, over N2m. It was learnt that Nwankwo had paid Chuka the money to buy property for him in Asaba, the...

Argentine President Mauricio Macri said on Tuesday he hoped to be in Russia to watch matches of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off this summer in 11 cities across the country. “I hope to come to the world football championship together with my daughter Antonia,” Macri told journalists...

Equatorial Guinea head coach Rodolfo Bodipo said the 3-1 defeat to Nigeria in a Group C 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN) clash in Agadir on Tuesday night was not a clean victory. CHAN Eagles The Equatorial Guineans opened scoring in the encounter, but the Super Eagles showed up strong in...

Warn Fulani herdsmen to steer clear of Nigeria Delta Vow to deal with any Niger Delta governor who allows colony By Egufe Yafugborhi PORT HARCOURT – A Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators yesterday listed a number of oil fields and installations as targets for resumed attacks if Federal Government...

Paul Obi in Abuja In a strategic effort to beef up its operations, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) wednesday redeployed three commanding officers and 14 senior officers to new locations. According to NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya, “the...

Fourteen students of the Ondo State-owned Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo who were arrested by the police during a violent protest over enforcement of order on payment of school fees, were wednesday arraigned before a Chief Magistrate Court in the ancient town. The accused, 13 males and one female...

Layi Olanrewaju, Ilorin Gunmen, yesterday, attacked some villages in Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State, killing four members of the local vigilance group and injuring several others. Chairman of the council, Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, disclosed yesterday that the gunmen mounted a camp...

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Gida Mustapha, stopped the Minister of of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, from distributing President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election campaign fez caps at the Federal Executive Council meeting, yesterday. Shittu, who put on the cap with the...

Muhammadu Buhari has felicitated with Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun on his 60th birthday. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, in a statement, yesterday, that Buhari described Amosun as “a visionary political leader, legislator and administrator, whose...

Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has berated the federal government for failing to release her counterpart fund of N60 billion for the execution of the Bonny-Bodo Road project. Speaking when he granted audience to the management of the Nigerian Liquified Natural...

A grand plot to remove Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, is in the works and is being allegedly championed by a former governor and a serving senator. This is even as meetings are said to have been held to actualise the removal. President of the Nigerian 8th … via Vanguard News –...

Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City A senior lecturer at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) identified as Dr Godwin Omofonwa, was wednesday shot dead by dare devil armed robbers who stormed Evbuomore quarters, Ugbowo, Benin City. Meanwhile, the policemen attached to Ugbowo division, in a gun duel with...

Gunmen have attacked some communities in Kaiama local government area of Kwara State killing four members of the local vigilance group and injured several others. The villages attacked by the gunmen include Tunga Maje, Nukku and Woro . The chairman of the council, Alhaji Abdullahi Abubakar, told...

David-Chyddy Eleke in Awka The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has said that the one doctor to 4,000 persons ratio in Nigeria is highly unacceptable. The group said the establishment of medical universities by the federal government would enhance the number of...